First operation performed at Ashgabat trauma center

A team of Turkmen doctors has conducted the first joint replacement operation. The operation took place at the International Center of Traumatology that was opened in Ashgabat earlier this month, Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported.

The operation was conducted on Igor Belchikov, 41-year-old, bedridden builder from Balkanabat, who six months ago received industrial injury. During the operation, the patient’s femoral bone head was replaced with artificial hip joint made in Italy. The operation went without complications. Currently, the movement in the joint has been restored in full, and the patient feels no pain.

The operating team that conducted the first joint replacement operation in Turkmenistan included five surgeons, two of whom underwent training in Italy.

On the eve of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov’s official visit to Belarus the editorial staff of "Foreign Policy and Diplomacy of Turkmenistan" magazine interviewed the President of the Republic of Belarus. Alexander Lukashenko kindly agreed to speak on the topical issues relating to development of good-neighborly relations between the two countries.

Poet-philosopher of the Turkmen people Magtymguly has been glorifying the Turkmen people with his name and inimitable literature for almost three hundred years. High status of the poet in the history, social-political, cultural and literary life of the Turkmen people is permanent. Magtymguly is the faith of the Turkmen soul, its philosophic stone that differentiates good and evil and eternal light of eyes.